Progressive Deployment

Progressive Deployment is a skill for Claude Code from robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,426 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deployment method that releases a change to a small part of production first, waits while monitoring it, and expands gradually if it remains healthy. An alarm can trigger an automatic return to the last working version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for application releases, configuration and infrastructure changes, and database migrations that may affect customer-facing behavior.
Why use it?
It limits how many customers are affected when a release has a problem. Issues can be found and reversed before the change reaches the whole system.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the build-like-amazon plugin — 28 skills, 14 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it for application releases, configuration and infrastructure changes, and database migrations that may affect customer-facing behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills/progressive-deployment
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills --skill progressive-deployment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install build-like-amazon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 14 commands.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,426 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00022 $0.01426
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00713
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00143

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0fc84353718d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Progressive Deployment scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/progressive-deployment/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Progressive Deployment

Overview

Every production change follows a staged rollout that expands blast radius gradually: One-Box → One-AZ → Regional → Global. Each stage has mandatory bake time during which alarms are monitored. Any alarm breach triggers automatic rollback to the last known-good state. The goal is to detect problems when they affect the fewest customers possible.

When to Use

  • Every code deployment to production
  • Configuration changes that affect runtime behavior
  • Infrastructure changes (new instance types, scaling policies)
  • Database schema migrations with application-level changes
  • Any change that could impact customer-facing behavior

Amazon Context

At Amazon, no service deploys to all hosts simultaneously. The pipeline enforces progressive deployment because the cost of a bad deployment to 100% of hosts is measured in customer trust and revenue. A 1-box deployment that catches a bug costs almost nothing. A full-fleet deployment that causes a critical incident costs millions and erodes customer confidence. Teams that skip stages eventually cause high-severity events—this is not theoretical, it is observed repeatedly.

The Process

Stage 1: One-Box (Canary)

  1. Deploy to a single host in the lowest-traffic availability zone
  2. Route a small percentage of traffic (typically <1%) to this host
  3. Monitor for 30-60 minutes minimum (bake time)
  4. Compare metrics against the rest of the fleet:
    • Latency p50, p99, p99.9
    • Error rate (5xx, 4xx anomalies)
    • CPU, memory, GC pauses
    • Business metrics (conversion, success rate)
  5. Automated gate: proceed only if all metrics are within threshold

Stage 2: One-AZ

  1. Deploy to all hosts in one Availability Zone (~33% in a 3-AZ setup)
  2. Bake time: 60-120 minutes
  3. Monitor the same metrics at AZ level
  4. Watch for cross-AZ dependency issues
  5. Verify the AZ can handle full load if others need to absorb traffic during rollback

Stage 3: Regional

  1. Deploy to all hosts in one region
  2. Bake time: 2-4 hours (longer for low-traffic regions: 4-8 hours)
  3. Verify region-level metrics and cross-region replication
  4. Monitor for subtle issues that only appear at higher traffic volumes
  5. Choose initial region carefully: not the largest, not the smallest

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 132 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 0fc84353718d

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Progressive Deployment is a skill published in the GitHub repository robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,426 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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